<p style="border:3px solid #CC0000;background-color:#FFDDDD;padding:5px;"><strong>[[Free Software Directory:Antifeatures|Antifeature]]: Software known to have grave flaws</strong><br />The Adblock Plus company ship ABP with &ldquo;[https://acceptableads.com/ Acceptable Ads]&rdquo; enabled as part of their [https://adblockplus.org/blog/new-acceptable-ads-platform-launches-bringing-feedback-to-rtb-and-help-to-small-websites Acceptable Ads Platform]. "Acceptable Ads" are meant replace big, too ugly, or too intrusive ads — with ads that are smaller, subtler, and theoretically less annoying, but it is still ads.</p>

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|message=Adblock Plus is ineffective for surveillance protection by default as it comes with ''Acceptable Ads'' enabled: These ads are not meant to be "ads that don't track you".

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Blocks banners, pop-ups, tracking, malware. By default, nonintrusive ads aren't blocked in order to support websites.

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Adblock Plus allows you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

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The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 there is an option in Filter Preferences to allow some non-intrusive advertising. The goal is to support websites using non-intrusive ways to advertise and to encourage more websites to do the same.

Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 there is an option in Filter Preferences to allow some non-intrusive advertising. The goal is to support websites using non-intrusive ways to advertise and to encourage more websites to do the same.

|Documentation note=Developers should see the [https://adblockplus.org/en/development-builds development builds section], the [https://adblockplus.org/category/roadmap/ project roadmap], and the [https://adblockplus.org/en/contribute contribute page].

|Documentation note=Developers should see the [https://adblockplus.org/en/development-builds development builds section], the [https://adblockplus.org/category/roadmap/ project roadmap], and the [https://adblockplus.org/en/contribute contribute page].

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Adblock Plus shows “acceptable ads” by default, which works against the purpose of the add-on. Either disable acceptable ads or use [[uBlock Origin]] instead.

Adblock Plus shows “acceptable ads” by default, which works against the purpose of the add-on. Either disable acceptable ads or use [[uBlock Origin]] instead.

Latest revision as of 13:03, 5 June 2018

Adblock Plus (ABP)

⚠Antifeature: Tracking commentAdblock Plus is ineffective for surveillance protection by default as it comes with Acceptable Ads enabled: These ads are not meant to be "ads that don't track you".

Blocks banners, pop-ups, tracking, malware. By default, nonintrusive ads aren't blocked in order to support websites.

The add-on is supported by over forty filter subscriptions in dozens of languages which automatically configure it for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to customize your filters with the assistance of a variety of useful features, including a context option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of blockable items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 there is an option in Filter Preferences to allow some non-intrusive advertising. The goal is to support websites using non-intrusive ways to advertise and to encourage more websites to do the same.

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